Along with many of the world’s cultures, I feel a symbiosis with the land. What inspiration do you draw from the country around you?Ī. Myth has been integral to me throughout my life, and is the only subject I find worth writing about. Myth is, at all times, unencumbered Truth. Myth is essential to humanity, not just to “Boneland”.
What draws you to myths and what place do they have in the modern world?Ī. Myth is an important element in “Boneland”.
But I was entangled with “Thursbitch” at the time, and it was 2003 before I was ready to formulate the questions: what happened to Colin and Susan, and where would they be now? It seemed worthwhile to find out. In 1996, with the publication of “Strandloper”, I met adults that had grown up with the first two books who said that they felt that there was a third book “missing”. The modern story is intertwined with that of The Watcher, a mysterious pre-historic man, who must find “the woman” to prevent the world from ending.Ī. With no memory of Susan’s disappearance or indeed of anything before he was 13, Colin visits a psychiatrist, Meg, who tries to help him uncover his lost secrets. Professor Colin Whisterfield, now a deeply troubled astrophysicist at the nearby Jodrell Bank radio telescope observatory, combs the cosmos looking for Susan, who disappeared at the end of “The Moon of Gomrath”. Like the two earlier novels, “Boneland” is steeped in folklore and myth but set in the real landscape around Alderley Edge, to the south of the city of Manchester.īy local legend, an army of knights sleeps under the Edge, waiting to be called to fight for England. Now, after almost 50 years, Garner has completed the trilogy with “Boneland”. In “The Weirdstone of Brisingamen”, published in 1960, and “The Moon of Gomrath” (1963), Colin and his sister, Susan, stumbled into a world of wizards, witches, dwarves and elves. LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly four decades before the Harry Potter phenomenon, British author Alan Garner was thrilling children (and their parents) with tales of children teaming up with wizards to do battle with the forces of evil.
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